This situation is getting very bad now, too many deaths over such a wide area (no deaths as a result of this are acceptable but you know what I mean) . The Russians have banned all EU vegetable imports. And the Spanish cucumber farmers are threatening to sue the Germans.

There will be a vaccine at some point of time, and when it's no longer a threat, another virus will appear. It's the trend.

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It's not a virus, it's a bacteria. With bacteria, it is a matter of generally seeing if some form of penicillin can kill it. If not, they have to try to form a specialized antibiotic. Generally though, with E.Coli outbreaks, it is most important to find the source of contamination over trying to cure the problems it is creating. If the problem lies in a distributor that supplies only to Germany, it shouldn't be too terribly hard to figure it out.

Really, you just need to see where the last few places the person ate and what they ate before they became afflicted in order to really track down the problem area.

There will be a vaccine at some point of time, and when it's no longer a threat, another virus will appear. It's the trend.

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It's not a virus, it's a bacteria. With bacteria, it is a matter of generally seeing if some form of penicillin can kill it. If not, they have to try to form a specialized antibiotic. Generally though, with E.Coli outbreaks, it is most important to find the source of contamination over trying to cure the problems it is creating. If the problem lies in a distributor that supplies only to Germany, it shouldn't be too terribly hard to figure it out.

Really, you just need to see where the last few places the person ate and what they ate before they became afflicted in order to really track down the problem area.

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Oh yes Bacteria...my previous post... gah, no wonder I gave up science after school.

the cause could have been that the apples from a dutch farmer operating in spain fell on the ground while delivering them to germany.
back then there were 2 people dead and 1 dude was infected in the netherlands

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The source of the infection, originally blamed on Spanish cucumbers, is unclear.

The most vegetables contaminated with the bacterium (mostly salad, cucumbers and tomatoes) are from northern germany.

They believe that somehow animals have gotten that bacterium. They're not getting sick of it, but their manure is infected with it - which is used to fertilize the fields and everything. If that sticks to vegetables and is not washed off properly, you can get sick of it.

That's the vague picture I have of it. A bit mysterious yet where exactly the bacterium comes from and what can be done against it.

The most vegetables contaminated with the bacterium (mostly salad, cucumbers and tomatoes) are from northern germany.

They believe that somehow animals have gotten that bacterium. They're not getting sick of it, but their manure is infected with it - which is used to fertilize the fields and everything. If that sticks to vegetables and is not washed off properly, you can get sick of it.

That's the vague picture I have of it. A bit mysterious yet where exactly the bacterium comes from and what can be done against it.

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Yes that's it

For the origin of the bacteria, I'm guessing some EHEC randomly mutated in the wild and somehow got ingested by the animals while they were grazing. Then it came out in their manure, fertilised, not washed off... etc. I can't see anything sinister behind the origin because it's so common for E. coli to mutate/obtain virulence genes anyway.

Yeah and as stated, finding the source of infection and stopping that spread is the most important thing. Normally it's difficult because there will be the latent period- time between consuming the contaminated food and the time for infection to actually occur. So it might be difficult for some people to remember where they ate!

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